“Madonna and Child” by Bachiacca 2018 Forever Postage Stamps Self-Adhesive Booklet for Holiday Mail

This forever stamp features a detail of Bachiacca’s oil-and-gold-on-panel painting “Madonna and Child,” which dates from the early 1520s, showing the Christ child clutching a bouquet of jasmine, a symbol of divine love, alongside the Virgin Mary’s profile, left shoulder and right hand.

Bachiacca (1494-1557) led Mannerist art in the Italian Renaissance, capturing nature skillfully.